Volume 1 / Part 7 — An Illuminated Target

Fig. 1 Fig. 2. Target for Night Shooting

My youthful nephews some time ago were presented with an air rifle and it worked so well that it became necessary for me to construct a target that would allow the fun to be carried on at night.

I reversed a door gong, screwed it on the inside of a store box, and fitted two candles on the inside to illuminate the bullseye. The candles, of course, were below the level of the bullseye. The position of the candles and gong are shown in Fig. 1. At night the illuminated interior of the bell could be plainly seen as shown in Fig. 2.

Contributed by James M. Kane, Doylestown, Pa.